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Process Modeling Using BPMN

Learn to use BPMN effectively in this hands-on BPMN training course.

Most business and technical stakeholders are vividly aware that, in order to come up with good solutions, we need to be able to describe, understand, and communicate our organizations' business processes, end-to-end and top-to-bottom. Yet, despite decades of flowcharting-talk and uncounted number of Visio diagrams, we are still struggling with this challenge. Without doubt, this is a major contributor to projects that fail to deliver (e.g. cancelled, over schedule and/or budget, products of poor quality or that include either only a fraction of the required functionality or functionality that nobody ever uses).

In the last couple of years, more and more organizations have adopted a new standard: Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN). By now, a de-facto standard for business process modeling, BPMN enables bridging the communication gap between business and technical people by providing an effective, efficient, and flexible way to capture, model, analyze, and design business processes, in a way that is easily understood by all interested parties.

This BPMN Training course is based on BPMN 2.0 and will teach you how to use BPMN effectively and correctly and arm you with techniques and tools to make sure that you are doing BPMN the right way. Learn how to create descriptive models, analytical models, and more the right way with BPMN.

Duration

2 days/16 hours of instruction

Education Credits

14 PDUs 14 CDUs

Public Classroom Pricing

Starting at: $1295(USD)

$1650(CAD)

GSA Price: $1185

Group Rate: $1195

Private Group Pricing

Have a group of 5 or more students? Request special pricing for private group training today.

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Part 1: Intro & Core Concepts

Models and modeling goals
Processes/process types
Process modeling
BPMN in Context: BPM & BPMS
Historical background
Comparison with alternative modeling methods

Part 2: BPMN Notation & Element Types

BPMN Standard: Notation/symbols, Syntax, and Semantics
Modeling levels/palettes: Descriptive, Analytical, Execution
Work-performing elements: Processes, Activities (Tasks/Sub-Tasks)
Work-routing elements: Sequence & Message Flow, Gateways
Work-partitioning elements: Pools & Lanes
Events
Data Objects
Artifacts

Part 3: Descriptive Models (Level 1 Palette)

Purpose & target audience
Core elements
Method and style
Examples

Part 4: Analytical Models (Level 2 Palette)

Purpose & target audience
Additional elements
Method and style
Examples

Part 5: BPMN Practices

Common pitfalls & how to avoid them
Best practices

Part 6: Process Analysis & Design, using BPMN

BPMN Syntax Validation
BPMN Method & Style Validation
Tokens & Workflow Patterns
Optimizing Processes: Analysis & Design

Part 7: Advanced Topics

Process Simulations
BPMN Processes and Business Rules/Decisions
Event Sub-processes
Choreography diagrams
Executable models

Part 8: BPM/BPMN Career, Resources

IIBA and Process Modeling
OMG Certified Expert in BPM (OCEB)
Other certifications
Resources

Part 9: BPMN Tools

Whiteboards, Sticky-Notes, etc.
Diagramming tools vs. Modeling tools
BPMN vs. BPMS
Commercial & Open-source tools

Part 10: Case Study & Hands-on Exercises

Primary audience:

Business Analysts
Process Analysts
Process Owners
Process Engineers

Secondary audience:

Business customers/end users
Product Owners, Project Managers, End users
Testers
Anybody interested to understand, capture, analyze, design, and/or optimize processes

Bridge the communication gap between business and IT
Enable process collaboration and accountability
Create high-level (whole-picture) models that describe an organization's end-to-end processes
Design and optimize processes, by progressively elaborating high-level models (Descriptive level) into hierarchical and more detailed process models (Analytical level)
Streamline process and requirements documentation by using the same notation and syntax to capture processes at all stages of the SDLC
Enhance knowledge management (creating, sharing, training, reuse, etc.) by eliminating the need to duplicate and/or translate process definitions
Increase productivity by enabling process engineers to elaborate Analytical models into Executable models (rather than starting from scratch each time)
Enable scope management and prioritization
Facilitate adoption/customization of BPM/BPMN/BPMS tools
Enable process simulations to validate and optimize busi

Razvan Radulian